Beechwood High School Spanish 1 Syllabus Teacher: Liz Cobb Phone: 331-1220 EXT. 6301 Room: 301 Email: liz.cobb@beechwood.kyschools.us Office Hours: 4 th period or by appointment Website: beechwood.kyschools.us/webpages/lcobb Description: Prepares students to: perform interpersonal, interpretive and presentational communicative tasks within the novice range on the ACTFL Proficiency scale; interpret, exchange, and present, information, concepts and ideas both within the classroom and beyond on a variety of topics including connections to other subject areas; and understand the relationship among the products, practices and perspectives of other cultures. In addition, students develop insight into their own language and culture. All foreign language students must ear minimum grade of C in level 1 to take level II of the same language. Studying Spanish helps you to: Understand Culture: Spanish-speaking world is rich in music, food, art, literature, history, and everyday traditions. Expand Career Opportunities: Your career options expand as business in the twenty-first century look for employees who can communicate in Spanish. Enjoy!!!!! Enjoy Your Spanish Experiences: Speaking Spanish enriches your experience whether at home or in another Spanish country where you travel. Improve Your Language Skills: Studying Spanish improves your first-language skills: vocabulary, grammar, reading, and writing. Research shows your test scores may improve! Course Standards: World Languages Modes of Communication
1. Interpretive Listening: The student will be able to understand and interpret information, concepts, and ideas orally from a variety of culturally authentic sources on a variety of topics in the target language. 2. Interpretive Reading: The student will be able to understand and interpret information, concepts, and ideas in writing from a variety of culturally authentic sources on a variety of topics in the target language. 3. Interpersonal Communication: The student will be able to engage in conversations and exchange information, concepts, and ideas orally and in writing with a variety of speakers or readers on a variety of topics in a culturally appropriate context in the target language. 4. Presentational Speaking: The student will be able to present information, concepts, and ideas to an audience of listeners on a variety of topics in a culturally appropriate context in the target language. 5. Presentational Writing: The student will be able to present information, concepts, and ideas to an audience of readers on a variety of topics in a culturally appropriate context in the target language. Intercultural Standards 6. Culture: The student will be able to use the target language to gain knowledge and demonstrate understanding of the relationship among practices, products, and perspectives of cultures other than his/her own. 7. Connections: The student will be able to acquire, reinforce, and further his/her knowledge of other disciplines through the target language. 8. Comparisons: The student will be able to develop insight into the nature of the target language and culture by comparing his/her own language(s) and cultures to others. 9. Communities: The student will be able to use the target language both within and beyond the school setting to investigate and improve his/her world beyond his/her immediate surroundings for personal growth and enrichment. Course Text: - Descubre 1(textbook), Vista Higher Learning - Descubre online Practice Workbook - CD Descubre 1 The main book selected to teach the course Descubre, Vista Higher Learning, provide an excellent selection of literature works, poetry, newspaper articles, Web sites, and magazines. The course is also supplemented with the corresponding vocabulary and grammar book Guided Practice Activities for Vocabulary and Grammar, and with the practice workbook Practice Workbook with Writing, Audio & Video Activities. Instructional materials include a variety of authentic audio and/or video recordings that develop student s abilities. The teacher uses the internet to get international audio clips, view interviews, and new broadcasts. Movies in Spanish about the Spanish-speaking world are shown to the class.
Web-site Resources: -Conjuguemos: www.conjuguemos.com : Each week students will have a quiz on unit vocabulary. They will use this website to master the spelling and vocabulary of each word. This will always be a homework grade. -Quia: www.quia.com : This is another homework and review website the students will use in particular to master grammar and vocabulary when preparing for the National Spanish Exam. Curriculum Map Spanish I Vocabulary Grammar Culture Month(s) Unit 1: Learn greetings, Intro. Masc./fem Países August Hola, Qué tal? (Hi, what s up? leave-takings, identify yourself and others, learn numbers 0-30, expressions of courtesy nouns, articles, subject pronouns, present tense of SER, and telling time, hispanohablantes, greetings and salutations in Spanish speaking countries, La plaza principal, US and Canada Unit 2: Learn classroom and Use the present tense Capitalization of days September En la clase (In class) school life, fields of study, school subjects, days of the week, and utilize vocabulary associated class schedules of ar verbs, forming questions in Spanish, present tense of estar, and numbers 31 + of the week and articles (los lunes), secondary school in Spanish speaking countries, and El Inframen, and Spain Various Hispanic Heritage Month Activities Sept. 15-Oct-15 Unit 3: Learn and use family Use escriptive La familia real October La familia (Family) vocabulary, identifying people, professions and occupations adjectives, possessive adjectives, present tense of er and ir verbs, present tense of tener and venir española, Ecuador Unit 4: Learn and use: rooms Informal commands, Typical homes in November Bienvenido a mi casa (Welcome to my house) of the house/items, adjectives to describe things, and house chores demonstrative adjectives, comparisons/ superlatives Spanish speaking countries Unit 5: Learn and use: -Ir stem changing Real Madrid y Barca: December Los pasatiempos (Pastimes) pastimes, sports, and places in the city verbs, verbs with irregular yo forms rivalidad total, jai alai, Anier Garcia y Luciana Aymar, Mexico Review And Semester Exams Unit 6: Las Vacaciones/ pasatiempos Learn and use: ravel and vacations, past times and sports Estar, present progressive, Ir + a and El camino inca, Punta del Este, Puerto Rico January
(Vacations) boot verbs (stem changing verbs). Unit 7: Learn and use: Saber & conocer, Los mercados al aire February De compras! (Shopping) clothing and shopping, body parts, weather and months of the year direct object pronouns, indirect object pronouns and negative expresions libre, Carolina Herrera, Cuba National Spanish Exams Review And Tests March 1-14 Unit 8: Learn and use: Ser and estar, ordinal la siesta, ir de tapas, March/April La Comida/ Lugares en la Ciudad temporary states, food, places in the city, cardinal points #s and tener expressions, regular preterite tense Perú Unit 9: Learn and utilize Intro to the preterite Fairytales and legends April/May Los Cuentos de hada (Fairytales) fairytale vocabulary in the present and past tense past tense and how to form reflexive verbs from Mexico and Centreal America Review & Semester Exams Assessment: Students will be assessed according to the school s grading system, as outlined below. Additionally, students will have at least one weekly quiz in addition to at least one homework assignment a week (most homework will come from completing something assigned during class time). Additional grades will come from performance based assessments and assessments via project based learning. School Grading System: A: 92-100 B: 84-91 C: 76-83 D: 70-75 Your grade is made up of the following: 1. Graded Work: 30% 2. Quizzes: 20% 3. Homework: 20% 4. Tests: 30% Total 100% No one will be exempt from the midterm or final
Materials for Class: *ALWAYS a writing utensil (no red pens or pink gel pens), *2 3 Ring binder *5 tabbed dividers *Filler paper *Composition notebook for bell ringers *colored pencils *3 packs of Index Cards *Folder * Hand sanitizer /Kleenex CLASSROOM EXPECTATIONS: Your Keys To Success 1- Respect others. Listen when others are talking; keep hands, feet, objects and negative comments to yourself. Follow directions. 2- Raise your hand to be recognized before speaking or standing up from your seat. 3- Bring required materials to class every day. (No food or electronic devices) 4- Follow the Beechwood High School Code of Conduct. 5- Turn in completed assignments and homework on time. Tardies: Come into the classroom through the door (over the threshold) before the bell rings. Student must have a note to enter the room late. If not, s/he will be sent to the office and return with a note. Consequences for not Meeting Classroom Expectations 1 st Consequence Verbal warning and / or parent contact (phone call or e-mail) 2 nd Consequence Detention and / or classroom expulsion. Parent contact will be at least 24 hours prior to scheduled detention. 3 rd Consequence Referral to the administration Depending on the severity of the classroom disruption or behavior, the teacher may bypass consequences listed above. If you come to class unprepared, I will follow the same procedures for tardiness listed above. There are NO LOCKER PASSES, no exceptions!! You must come to class prepared. As a teacher you expect me to be prepared with materials, and I expect the same from you. You will be given FOUR restroom passes to each semester. You must sign in and out on the clip- board located on the chalkboard. You will not be allowed more than four passes. If you have a medical
emergency that requires restroom usage on a regular basis, you MUST have a doctor s note on file in the nurse s office and on YOU at all times. Cell phones must be turned off and be put away out of sight. I will follow school policy regarding cell phone violations. Sometimes in class we may use cell phones for educational purposes such as searching QR codes, recording speaking activities, etc. The teacher will make it clear when these times are permitted. All cell phone infractions that distract the student from learning will result in confiscation of cell phone by myself and turned into administration. LATE WORK POLICY If you are absent for a test day, you must make it up the day after you get back to school. The test score will stay a zero until it is made up. You may ONLY make up homework/graded assignments if it is an EXCUSED absence (See student handbook). They will stay a zero until it is made up. Each project that is turned in late will be minus 10 points for every day that it is late. This does not pertain to daily homework but to unit projects. Academic Dishonesty: Students are expected to be honest and ethical in their academic work. Academic dishonesty is defined as an intentional act of deception in one of the following areas: 1. Cheating- use or attempted use of information or study aids during testing. 2. Fabrication- falsification or invention of any information. 3. Assisting- helping another student commit an act of academic dishonesty. 4. Tampering- altering or interfering with evaluation instruments and documents. 5. Plagiarism- representing the words or ideas as one s own.(includes ON-line Translators) TUTORING: I am more than willing to meet before or after school for additional help to improve your Spanish skills. You need to set up an appointment with me ahead of time, at least one day prior. I will always have test reviews after school that will be announced before the test via the parent newsletter. EXTRA CREDIT: Opportunities will be offered for each quarter. If the student is missing aby work, they cannot ask for additional extra credit opportunities. REMIND: This is a FREE website where I can send reminders via text message to students and parents regarding daily homework, assignments and tests. No, this is not my actual phone number, so you cannot respond back. Rather, it is a fun and easy way to get updates in this class. I will send homework and other updates after school at 3:05. **If students fail to sign up for this, it is their responsibility to write down assignments in their agenda book! It is easy as pastel (cake in English). Just follow these instructions. Go to: www.remind.com/join/7a5b18 or text (859) 475-1385 with message @7a5b18
Note to Parents: It is my goal that all my students be successful in my class. I will assist your child in any way that I can. However, I alone cannot assure success. Please encourage your child in assuming responsibility for his/her learning. Please urge your child to study every night and check to make sure that their homework is completed. Your cooperation in this matter is greatly appreciated. Gracias, Srta. Cobb So, here we go! Have your parent/guardian read the syllabus and sign below for you first homework assignment. The best way to reach me is via my school email address listed on page 1. Please contact me if you have any questions. Buena Suerte! (Good Luck!) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Parent Signature Student Signature